Just saw them play in San Francisco a week or two ago, and they closed their encore with this song. Carl intro'd it by saying he used to live in SF but ended up moving to New York, where he ended up meeting the love of his life, even while he was still in a relationship with someone in SF. He described the song as having to do with the dawning realization that he had to end the relationship with the person he had left behind on the west coast.
As a side note, while he hadn't been very talkative throughout the rest of their set, he started to light up during this introduction, and ended up goading the crowd a bit with a twinkle in his eye, saying things like "Sometimes you just have to break up with your San Francisco girlfriend. You know, that whole thing about 'I left my heart in San Francisco' - that's bullshit. Leave someone else's heart in San Francisco." It was pretty great.
Just saw them play in San Francisco a week or two ago, and they closed their encore with this song. Carl intro'd it by saying he used to live in SF but ended up moving to New York, where he ended up meeting the love of his life, even while he was still in a relationship with someone in SF. He described the song as having to do with the dawning realization that he had to end the relationship with the person he had left behind on the west coast.
As a side note, while he hadn't been very talkative throughout the rest of their set, he started to light up during this introduction, and ended up goading the crowd a bit with a twinkle in his eye, saying things like "Sometimes you just have to break up with your San Francisco girlfriend. You know, that whole thing about 'I left my heart in San Francisco' - that's bullshit. Leave someone else's heart in San Francisco." It was pretty great.